Prisoners Cursing the Magistrate. Narrow Escape from a Whipping
IT frequently happens that a prisoner, on being sentenced by thr magistrates at the police courts, bursts into a torrent or vile abuse, and Mr Johnson,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1892
516 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 26
Maitland Licensing Court
Yesterday, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, a quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court for the licensing district of Maitland, was held. Messrs. Brooks, L.M., R. Scobie, and Dr. Wright, members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, July 7. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and H. Crothers, J.P.)
WIFE DESERTION.—Thomas Steadman was charged with having unlawfully deserted his wife, Eliza Steadman, and left her without lawful means of support. Defendant appeared, and consented to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, July 11, 1892. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and H. Crothers, J.P.)
DRUNKENNESS AND RESISTING THE POLICE.— James Byrnes, who was fined 5s for having been drunk in High-street, on Saturday evening, was charged with having resisted Constable Badburn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, July 12. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.m.) Riotous Behavior
ERNEST FREEMAN was charged with riotous behaviour. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Constable M'Elwaine deposed that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoner Before the Court. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
at the Police Court to-day the Griffiths, concerned in the [?]g rink shooting case, was [?]ged with blue metalling Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Wednesday, July 13Th, 1892. Before Mr. W.F.Parker, P.M.
HENRY ROBERTSON was charged with the larceny of a tent and pair of blankets, the property of William Neddrie, of Scone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Licensing Court
Yesterday, at the Court House, East Maitland, an adjourned quarterly meeting of the Maitland Licensing Court was held. Messrs. Brooks, L.M., R. Scobie, and Dr. Wright, Js.F., constituted the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, July 14, 1892. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and H. Crothers, J.P.)
APPRENTICE CASE.—Thomas Duxbury was charged that he, being the indentured apprentice of Mr. J. D. Mears, was guilty of a breach of duty in having, without lawful excuse, absented himself…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton Police Court. Wednesday, July 13Th. (Before Messrs. R. T. Blaxland, H. York, and Dr. R. Read, J's.P.) PROTECTION
Eliza Acres, an old woman, was brouth up on a charge of protection. Constable Brook deposed that on the previous night the defendant was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Women at Trials. Why Ladies Flock to Court. a Clear Definition of the Causes Which Make Women So Susceptible to Emotion
THE New York Sun has an able editorial in which it seeks to show why some women love to attend sonsational or murder trials. It says:—"Women are not stirred at all by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, July l8, 1892. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., H. Crothers and J. Rourke, Js.P.)
AFFILIATION.âGeorge Patfield, who had been summoned on a charge of disobeying an order of the Bench directing him to pay a certain sum weekly towards the support of his illegitimate male…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 10th JULY. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.m.) Assault
Charles M'Carthy pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting George Rayment. Mr Howe appeared for tho accused, and stated that the prosecutor desired to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sensational Burglary Case. Arrested on a Hoof
A BURGLARY case in which a most courageous arrest was made, occurred in Sydney last Sunday morning at a tobacconist's shop in Castlereagh-street. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bankruptcy Court. Tuesday, July 19. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, Deputy Registrar.)
A MEETING of creditors in the insolvent estate of Francis W. D. Parkes, of Rix's Creek, was held before the Depty-Registrar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court. Tuesday, 19th JULY. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Dr R. Read, J.p.) Colonial Wine License
Richard Boyle applied for a colonial wine license for his house situate at Darlington. Mr A. J. Gould appeared in support of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Friday (To-day), July 22, 1892. (Before Mr. J. J. Dodd and Dr. H. J. H. Scott, J's.P. Poultry Stealing—the Culprit Caught at Last
EDWARD THOMAS HAYNE was charged. with the larceny of 10 fowls, the property of William Fox Parker. Constable Williams Butler deposed:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court. Thursday, July 22, 1892. Before Mr. W. F. Parker, P.M.
THE only care set down for hearing was one in which D. F. Geary sued G. Gunter for the sum of £2 10s for the carriage of a plano from Scone to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Beltcheff Murder. The Accused Sentenced. London
THE trial has concluded at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, of the 18 persons accused of complicity in the murder of M. Beltcheff, Minister of Finance,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, July 21, 1892. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., H. Crothers, and R. Scobie, Js.P.)
MAIMING A BIRD.—Timothy Maher charged Mary Mugoven with having, at West Maitland, on the 16th instant, maliciously maimed a bird, a cockatoo, of the value of £5, the property of Arthur Puxty,…
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